Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 📚
Finished reading: Decorating with Plants by Baylor Chapman 📚
Finished reading: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain 📚
Here are the books I finished reading in 2023.
Finished reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚
Finished reading: The Martian by Andy Weir 📚
Finished reading: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson 📚
Finished reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 📚
Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 📚
Finished reading: Where’d You Park Your Spaceship? by Rob Bell 📚
When I’m reading a book, I have a hard time taking notes or summarizing it in my own words… I can’t do it. I hit a complete block. I’m overwhelmed.
But then an hour later, once I’m no longer so close to the author’s words, I’m able to talk and write about what I read — summarized or in detail.
Why?
Finished reading: Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚
Finished reading: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 📚 It was a book and it had very good sentences.
Finished reading: Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon 📚Kim played in Sonic Youth, a band I completely missed out on until now! It’s been fun reading and listening to their albums.
I worked out yesterday for the first time in almost two years.
In total, I did 45 squats with hardly any weight on the bar. It felt good and I felt strong through the full range of movement. It took me about ten minutes.
Today I’m sore AF, but I got out there again. For two minutes — HA!
Depending on the weather tomorrow I’ll either row or go for a walk. Looking forward to building up the momentum, bit by bit.
Finished reading: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan 📚It was great and I enjoyed it immensely, though this is one of the rare occasions where I’d say I liked the movie more than the book. If I say more, I’d spoil it, so I’ll stop there.
Finished reading: Surrender by Bono 📚I enjoyed most of it, especially the stories. It felt like a slog when it got philosophical or heady. At 550 pages, I think it’d be better split into two volumes.
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Great post about Kicking the social media habit with “one sec” by JP Camara
Getting into printing and bookmaking. I’m not sure if it’ll be a public hobby — shared on the internet — or a private one shared among friends. Or perhaps both… when you’re unknown enough, even a public hobby is private. 📚
A desk calendar feels like a daily chore to rip off the page from yesterday and throw it away.
Finished reading: Open by Andre Agassi 📚it was really great. It hits hard, moves fast, and you don’t need to know a thing about tennis to enjoy it; so much as you enjoy people.
I put my AirPods Pro through the wash and they got super clean but don’t work anymore 🤣
When I was in college, I read a ton, but I bailed on most books I started. This wasn’t for a lack of attention, but rather was an abundance of intention. I wanted to read more of the things I wanted to read and less of the things I didn’t want to read.
Each semester, I needed to read over a thousand pages a week to keep up with the course work — never mind what I actually enjoyed reading outside of that.
I discovered that expanding my mind through reading was immensely satisfying. The fastest way toward expansion was to ingest as many ideas as possible as quickly as possible. But the trick was to only go deep into the areas that I was most interested in. If I finished every book I found boring, I’d be missing out.
In most academic writing, the author outlines their entire argument in their introduction. The hundreds of pages following are often to fill the rest of the book. I guess you can’t write a book if you don’t write all those extra pages.
Lots of authors hooked me with their introduction, and I caught myself, at two or three in the morning, realizing I had finished their book. Good on them.
Today, my nightstand is overflowing with books I want to read. I find myself starting five or six books at a time and letting the ideas crash into each other. I have books upstairs and downstairs, scattered across rooms. If I’m in a room and I want to read, I pick up a book and start reading.
I finish most of what I start, but I still don’t mind bailing on a book.
Finished reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚it was fantastically written and a page turner. It helped to know some of the other Greek myths and stories beforehand. They provided anchor points along the way to make Circe’s stories more enjoyable.